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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019

Makerere University collaborated with Boston University to develop and organise a summer school titled “Humanitarian Engineering and Refugees Studies Design Solution for Health Challenges in Protracted Crises” between 2 - 20 July 2019.Students and staff from various fields, science, social science, psychology, biomedical engineering at Boston University interacted with Students from Makerere's Undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering as well as their masters in Disaster management students.The school was designed to provide students in the health sciences both theoretical and field experience understanding of the health challenges for refugees in Uganda and across Africa.

To find out more information about the Summer School programme, one can contact the partners at Makerere University here